He walked into the brightly lit bedroom, his black hair slightly ruffled and out of place, boxers slightly visible over the rim of his jeans "good morning " his voice sounding raspy and more passionate then it did the other evening as he leaned over to kiss up her arm gently to the nape of her neck. Her eyes fluttered open only to sparkle at the sight of the dark ice blue eyes.

"Hi," she breathed as she ruffled his Spiky locks a bit more.

This wasn't the first time Lucy had dreamed of scenes like this. Actually they hand been going on for a good two months, Gray Fullbuster seemed to have infiltrated her mind and it seemed to be escalating quicker than she seemed appropriate, even if it was her own fantasy.

Lucy woke up with her cheeks red and burning with embarrassment as she usually did after her Ice maker dreams.

"Gosh it's just a dream," she shook her head slightly trying to shake off the embarrassment, she glanced over at her alarm on the wooden night stand next to her bed. Lucy stood up and stretched, looking around the room still dazed from the dream; it took her a good 2 minutes before she checked the clock again and realized it read 10:00 a.m.

"Crap!" She bolted out of her room and ran towards the bathroom.

Umph!

Her entire body hit a wall like structure, "Natsu!" her voice muffled by the pink haired boy.

"I came to make sure you were not dead," He chuckled and continued towards the now empty bed, "Have anything to eat? Happy and I haven't eaten anything since an hour ago,"

"Aye! And we're starving, any kinda fish will do!" The blue flying kitty grinned widely.

"No I don't have any fish and I'm going to take a bath you better be gone before I come out!" Lucy stomped into the bathroom and filled up her tub. She stared at the wall as she mindlessly stripped off her pink and white pokadot pajamas. "Oh man this team will be the end of me,"

She slunk into the bathtub, her nose grazing the top of the bubbly water. Her eyes felt heavy but she did not fight it. Lucy closed her eyes and fell back into a sleepy trance.

"Lucy wake up we are going to be late," She smiled at the sound of grays voice but as she opened her mouth to answer, her mouth was flooded with soapy water. Lucy awoke in a coughing fit, only to hear Natsu banging on the door.

"Lucy didn't you hear me?! I said we are going to be late! Everyone's waiting for us in the Guild."

" I heard you! Now get out!" She submerged herself completely one more time before getting up and throwing on her fluffy pink bathrobe. She was not looking forward to the snowy walk there.

Within the walls of fairy tail's guild Lucy sat perched on the bar stool, her eyes fluttering open and closed. Mira walked over towards Lucy, "Restless night Lucy?" She asked with a smile.

"Yeah, something like that," Lucy answered back yawning and rubbing her eyes before shaking her head vigorously and slapping her cheeks to wake herself. Just then Gray and Natsu stumble into the guild, Gray in a head lock scrambling to grab onto Natsu in anyway he could.

"Get off of me dragon breath!" Gray yelled as he managed to twist Natsu's hand off his head. The two boys continue there head on head battle throughout the guild hall before crashing into the bar stools, sending an unlucky Lucy flying across the room.

"Owwww why do I always get caught in the line of fire!?" Lucy yelled as she rubs the back of her head before her anger veered towards the two blurs passing by. Lucy quickly grabbed hold of them both by their hair.

"Yeowwwwwww!" they two boys yelled.

"Stop breaking everything! We have to catch a train in 15 minutes if we want to finish that job! Now Erza is sick so she won't be coming, but I don't want to see what she will do if we mess up this job!" Lucy hulled the two boys towards the door, leaving everyone in the guild hall giggling and laughing as they left.

"Lucy, Happy and I have our own job first! Since yours will take a couple days to get there, we decided to take it up but we promise we will catch up later, okay?" Natsu smiled apologetically.

"Aye!" Happy pitched in, then Natsu and Happy waved goodbye as they started off into town.

"Well...I guess it's just you and me." Gray glanced over towards Lucy, his usual bright and handsome signature smile, caught her off guard. She blushed,quickly turning her head so he could not notice the dark red shade appearing on her cheeks.

Lucy and Gray had been catching a ride on a very kind mans hog cart, when all of a sudden the wheel had given out sending them flying forward into the fresh pile of snow.

"Owwww, why does always happen!" Lucy rubbed her hip in protest to another newly added bruise.

"Er...Lucy...you're kind of hurting my ribs.." Gray groaned and tried to smile politely through the pain. In the toss up, Lucy has accidentally landed on top of Gray, she quickly scrambled to her feet turning several different shades of pink.

"I'm so sorry Gray!" She leaned down to gentle rub his ribs and help him up.

"Sorry kids, this cart is in no condition to continue, the town we passed is only ten minutes back while the one up ahead is still half a days walk. I'm truly sorry kids but this is where I depart." The kind man gave a small bow and headed back up the icy road, with his wobbly cart and young hog.

"Oh right! Thanks again!" Lucy yelled back as she waved the man goodbye. "Did he say half a days walk?!" It suddenly sank in. It was going to be dark soon and Lucy began to worry about how safe this area would be to camp out in, not to mention the temperature drop that usually happens at night. "Gray had packed two small sleeping bags, a blanket and some snacks just in case something like this happened, so one night in the forest shouldn't be difficult," Lucy sighed at her own comforting thought.

"Well... it will be dark soon Luce, so let's try and walk as much as we can, before we have to set up camp okay?" Gray grabbed his bag off the forest floor, dusted the snow off and began walking again. "Come'on Lucy don't get too far behind!"

"Ugh, why couldn't we just rest here?! My legs are killing me and there's snow in my shoes" Lucy huffed under her breath, before picking up her keys, and sprinting slightly to catch up to Gray.

Their walk was mostly silent until Gray decided to ask, "So what exactly is this job about?"

"Well it didn't say much other than a heating problem in some mans inn, so he wanted us to check it out" Lucy replied.

"Yes so naturally call an ice wizard," Gray laughed and winked as he stuck his tongue out.

Lucy's eyes widened as she had forgotten she told him he was specifically requested to come along. Lucy hadn't been on a job with all of them in such a long time so, she thought it best to drag everyone along. Although her plan back fired when Ezra had gotten sick, and Natsu decided to leave with Happy on another job.

"I don't know..." She rolled her eyes, "All I'm worried about is actually getting the reward this time to pay rent, since Natsu and you kept over doing it every time," Lucy referred to the last experience that ended in her reward going towards the repair funds of that small town.

"Hey! its not my fault Natsu can't control his dragon breath." Gray exclaimed in protest to the accusation from the little blond female before his stomach joined in. "It's pretty dark now and I'm kinda hungry...maybe we should set up camp now," Gray rubbed the nape of his neck shyly and looked at her through his lashes.

Lucy giggled at his embarrassment, "Yeah I'm hungry too, but let's get to a clearing and set up so we can make a fire and keep warm."